Blogging on Self-Hosted Website Vs. Blogging on Third Party Site?

[Mika]

Blogging means writing a personalized post on any topic and publishing it on the internet. You can publish your post on a self-hosted website or a third-party website. Self-hosted website means a website that you built by buying a domain name and hosting and installing website software on the servers. A third-party site means a site that you don’t own but you can publish your blog post.

As a blogger, you can earn from your own website or a third-party blogging site. But between these two, which do you think will be easier to manage and make money?

You can blog on third-party websites like Medium, Vocal, HubPages, Read Cash, Publish0x, Hive, etc and make money as a blogger. However, having your own website serves a better purpose to make money as a blogger. Even though earning from third-party blogging platforms is easier compared to your own blog, you need a website if you truly want to become a blogger.

Building traffic on a third-party blogging site is easy because there are a lot of writers on the site and you can follow them read their content, and leave comments on their content. In most cases, you will be reciprocated, which means you will have a follower, a reader, and a commentator.

 

[Jasmine]

I don't believe in blogging on third party sites. My reasons are simple, they take a huge cut in your earnings, when they go out of business, you will also lose your income stream and your effort to build your income source will be wasted, and you do not control your content. When you blog on your own website, you have full ownership on your content, you do not have to give commission on your earnings to other companies. When you blog on third party site you have limited income opportunities for example you might just earn from their earning program, however, when you blog on your own website, you can earn through multiple methods, for example, you can earn from adsense, amazon, or selling ad space, doing sponsored posts, etc. Yes, it is easy to build followers and get engagements on your content on third party sites, however, the third party sites work on reciprocation basis. You will have to follow a lot of people, comment on a lot of people's articles in order to get followers and comments, and in most cases you are only wasting your time. Therefore, I don't think anyone should try third party blogging sites.